 What's shaking Booktube? I guess today I should probably call you gentle friends. What's shaking gentle friends? If you don't already know, in which case you must be living under a very heavy rock. One of Booktube's very own and someone I would like to think I'm friends with, Piera Ford has recently adapted the world famous book series Nevernight into a web series. It's not out just yet but they did release a trailer a couple of days ago and this thing's pretty legit. I'm going to be real with you right now. The trailer is hella juicy. For real though it's pretty legit because Piera's team were awarded the Screen Australia and Google grant which is a pretty big deal but I'm not going to go into that because that's something Piera's talked about at length on her channel and obviously she knows a lot more about what happened there than I do. But like I said they released a trailer for the fantasy web series based on the novel series Nevernight and it looks pretty good. So what I wanted to do was I wanted to have a look at the trailer and basically kind of break it down scene by scene and see from a fan's perspective what it is that we've actually seen in the trailer close up. It's super unlikely that Piera needs me to even shout her out especially now but if you want to watch the full uninterrupted trailer as well as like just a shit ton of behind the scenes vlogs that kind of thing you're going to have to go over to her channel and I'll make sure I leave a link in the description for that. The trailer's not very long at all it's only about 50 seconds but there's quite a lot happening in there. Like I said I'm just going to be analyzing it as just a fan of the series. But with that said I can't really say I would just be an objective third party because guess what I'm in it. Not in the trailer but I was an extra for the Nevernight web series. That's right mom I'm an actor now. Who's the joke now mom? I'll talk a little bit about that later in the video. By the way if I get anything wrong in this trailer feel free to point it out in the comments below that's okay. I only just finished the series so I'd like to think I know what I'm talking about but there's a hell of a lot more Mia Calvary stands out there than me so go ahead correct me if you like but you know don't be a wiener. It's the shadow ride for you and me. We'll be a rumor over splat. Right so the very first thing you notice in the trailer is the voiceover and I'm gonna guess. I feel like it's a pretty good guess that that's Mercurio. Mercurio being Mia Calvary the protagonist's mentor and father figure and that makes a lot of sense actually because Mercurio at a lot of points in the actual book series is like the narrator for the story that's happening there so that translates pretty well and I believe at this point in the trailer he's pulling a direct quote from the from the very first book Nevenite. A quote that kind of ends up being Mia Calvary's credo although I'll get to that when when he finishes the quote. So the first shot there I'm going to guess is the Ashcarl Whisper Waste which is like one of the primary and interestingly enough one of the most interesting settings for the series and I remember the Whisper Waste being one of the very first looks we had at the web series when Piera started updating us and letting us know what was happening. I specifically remember saying how much of a bitch it was to film there because you know it's it's hot it was by the beach but it was still really hot in there out there you know battling and stuff in the sand because it's next to a beach it's windy and you're getting sand blown in your eyes it's that's a bitch even on a like good day when you're in your in your Dunkaroos so I can't imagine doing that in full fantasy gear and in that first shot I imagine it's Trick and Mia that we're seeing walking through the desert although I guess it could be Naive as well it's interesting that at a first glance you can only like see one sun but then you'll notice obviously that there's two light sources so you've got the two suns there I'm going to guess the third sun is out of frame because as we know in the world of Nevernight there's three suns it looks like directly after that we have a mysterious shot of Mia and Mercuria in an alleyway in one of God's grave alleyways I can only imagine how many cigarettes Piera must have had to smoke for this it's prominent in the story of course it's like a Constantine-esque like chain smoking thing going on and it's like in every photo we have of Piera as Mia she's smoking just makes me wonder if like after the shoot was finished if she had the golden fucking nicotine patch or something never know guys maybe Mia will come out post edits with a bit of an Aussie smoker voice I'm no all you can't win oh hey by the way guys just really really quickly what do you think of the shirt this is the book hangover shirt I think it might be my favorite design we have over at page nomad.com if you're a reader or writer or both and you're after some bookish clothing that doesn't look like complete poo poo go and check it out that's page nomad.com the thought that wakes the bastards in this world sweating in the Nevernight right so I just want to pause just there real quick just want to point out you probably noticed how good the video quality is here you probably noticed it looks pretty fantastically separated from being just like a fan film because it's it's pretty high quality and I could say I saw that first hand I think they were filming with a red which is some pretty serious gear I just think that's something we're gonna really appreciate once the episodes are released so then we have a nice little time lapse over I'm gonna presume it's the red church very clearly see two suns in the sky they're in there and then we have a shot of me again on in a bit of an alleyway in a god's grave alleyway and this this is the most important part of the trailer and you know why because this is a bit that I'm in baby well I'm not in the trailer but I'm probably not in it by like a microsecond so I'll tell you the deal I'm not going to tell you what's actually specifically happening in that scene because I don't know if that's something Piera doesn't want like exposed just yet but Piera put out a bit of a casting call I guess on Twitter just for people in the Brisbane area and I happen to live in the same city as Piera saying she needed some extras for a god's grave marketplace and I was like yeah cool I got some spare time I already feel like a peasant I'll blend right in then butter bing butter boom there I am I'm at the it was filmed at like this old military kind of fort from way way back in the day like Oceanside and it's an old like abandoned military base it's now like a historical ground but it looks like a castle it's just an absolutely beautiful area there so I go there and Piera and a team are all set up there and they're all super nice by the way and there's me and like I don't know 20 30 other people so they get us all decked out in like the god's grave like commoner clothing I'm the very last one to get dressed up so I didn't really have the coolest pick like I get it I'm a peasant some people have like cool belts and like cool fantasy looking stuff some people like pirates which would have been dope and then there's me that is like the most peasant peasant there I'm just wearing like a dirty old poncho and I've just got all this like dirt makeup just smeared all over my face don't get me wrong I looked the part but I also looked like I just escaped Shawshank through a shit pipe so no it was really fun it was a really really good day I really enjoyed it and it was just fantastic meeting Piera in person she's just such an incredible woman I remember I was like off sitting to the side just chilling on my friend while we were waiting you know to play our part and I look across and there's just Piera like on her own in like a little bit of grass with her dagger just doing like all this ninja shit looked badass as hell by the way it was just really really cool experience um but anyway what I actually had to do as an extra so in that bit where they're kissing in the alleyway literally like within a second of that I believe you would see me walk past in the background that was that was my job I just I walk past I tried to put like a bit of a drunk swagger on it I hope that makes it in I hope I make it in that even if I do I imagine I'm just gonna be a blur in the background which is cool but um yeah and I did the drunk walk through plenty of times which just like an average Wednesday for me anyway that's a normal Wednesday me drunkenly staggering through our marketplace with shit all over my face that was good I sure as shit got my exercise needless to say at the end of the day my legs were ripped bro if I do make it into the final cut you better believe that'll be my proudest moment and you better believe I'll be making that my Twitter cover photo and sending it to Hollywood so then we have a few cool shots a really good close-up of uh mercurio I I'm pretty sure it's mercurial look really dumb if it's not but from what it looks like to me I think that might be the very first meeting of Mia and mercurio that's just a guess but yeah we have our first close-up of mercurio um for some reason I imagined him being like a fair bit older and maybe a bit more decrepit this gentleman looks pretty damn healthy but then I guess that makes sense he's still meant to be a reasonably fit assassin or ex-assassin all right pause okay okay okay guys this is our first and I believe I only look at mr kindly in the trailer which I'll admit I'm a little disappointed by only because I'm so goddamn keen to see what the finished product looks like the special effects I remember watching the test footage they did uh just ages and ages and ages ago it was like towards the start of the year and honestly I thought mr kindly looked pretty good in that as it was but then we fast forward to now and they've raised just they did a kickstarter where they raised just a ton of money for the special effects and a few other things to make it look a bit better you know in post so you just know mr kindly is going to look dope as hell and I'm just really excited to see that that's one of the things I'm most excited for and let's take a moment to just appreciate how bang and pierre looks here because I think the outfit's spot on she just looks she looks fantastic she is 100 on that respect the drip actually shit you know what I mean then we have a shot of presumably Mia's first victim the drunk from the beginning of book one then bam we have our first look at trick awesome I love this this is one of my favorite shots of the whole trailer let's be real right now the casting for trick is just phenomenal great job whoever was responsible for that you fucking crushed it so the actor they cast for trick was a guy from New Zealand named Geordi Weber also known for being the red power ranger and I believe he's a musician as well but it's just incredible that's almost exactly what I pictured trick looking like it's just just great great work he wrapped shooting before I was ever on the set so I didn't get to meet him unfortunately but I've watched like all of the videos of him and pierre on pierre's channel like answering you know questions from people about the nevernight series and stuff and he seems really damn cool the last thing you'll ever be in this world girl someone's hero and there we go there's our first close-up of trick the face tattoos look dope as hell the makeup on the shoot is just phenomenal and we also have the end of the quote I mentioned the quote that kind of becomes Mia Keveri's credo the last thing you'll be someone's hero although that's very rarely the truth she says that a lot to herself in the series although she's a hero pretty much at every opportunity she gets but you will be a so we have another clearer shot of the whisper wastes two suns in the sky beautifully done considering that wasn't actually a desert and then we have the tussle with nave that was another thing that was of great interest to me was watching all the behind the scenes footage of like the fight training and stuff it looks like they took it pretty damn seriously obviously this is a massive passion project but from what we see in the trailer I think the combat looks pretty dope I'm interested to see if we see trick fighting I really hope so because it would seem like a bit of a bit of a wasted opportunity if we don't right so the next few shots are really really quick it's really easy to like miss it so you have to kind of pause as you go but from what I see we see Mia at a first glance it looks like she's just like staring at the ceiling probably pondering you know murder or something that but if you look closely you'll notice there's actually some fingers around her shoulder so what I think this actually might be is she's looking up lovingly at someone maybe it's a sexy sex scene it looks like someone's holding her down it doesn't look like she's that worried about it so I'm gonna guess it's a love scene then a shot of mercurial looking like he's maybe woken up from a bad dream the next shot I really love this one one of the main things that got me really excited for this web series is because I want to see the red church I imagine there's not going to be a whole lot of it in the web series I might be wrong but I'm just going to guess because I know what an enormous budget it would take to like have the red church you know the gothic like cult like evil Hogwarts basically is what it is so I don't expect we're going to see a lot of that I really don't expect to see like the blood pools or anything like that so the next frame is the photo for the trailer and it looks fantastic I can see why it would have been used as the trailer photo so Mia staring down a blade I'm gonna guess naive again what I'm interested to know is if this was a practical effect or not I mean obviously it's not a real knife but it doesn't quite look like fake either which would lead me to believe that it's probably the blades probably been edited in after which would be the safer and probably better looking option anyway off on a bit of a random different tangent the one of the craziest stunts I've ever heard of ever was just I think it was mission impossible too Tom Cruise right he's in a tussle and someone brings a knife down to his face much like this except it's literally just super close to his eyeball and I can't remember exactly what they did but it was something just insane like they they had a string the exact length that would stop the knife from going any further or something really really stupidly dangerous like that I'm gonna go out in a limb and say that's not what they did did for never night we have a bit of a better look at knave still covered but that's okay so knave's meant to be disfigured she was disfigured in a fit of jealous rage by the flesh weaver much like the story of medusa and Athena now I think of it this one here might be my favorite frame of the whole trailer just because I saw it uploaded on pierra's instagram quite a while ago you know Mia in the red church with blood on her face that just that to me is the most never night frame of the whole trailer that's that is a never night looking at that it's almost unmistakable and then we have another good look at mercurial looking a bit more beaten and weary then bam we have the most special special effect in the whole trailer I want to take that frame by frame just so we can appreciate how fantastic that looks it's Mia stepping out of the shadow although it kind of looks like she was completely invisible that was something that wasn't entirely like a hundred percent clear to me in the series is when she shrouds herself in shadow is it kind of like a literal shadow walking around or is it just invisible this looks like it would be invisible which would make a shit ton more sense in the story that looks fantastic that quick snap of like just the shadow being pulled away when you can look at it frame by frame and it still looks good that's when you know it's being done really professionally and really well and then yeah we have the title card and release date I was pleasantly surprised by like the release dates I thought it would be like you know maybe week by week or something like that that's what people usually do with stuff like this when they know there's high demand they make you wait to try and build up anticipation which I kind of hate that I get it but it looks like we get them all in a span of four days which is fantastic but yeah that's pretty much the trailer I feel like looking at it scene by scene gives us at least a good idea of what we can expect from the web series I don't need to tell you it looks incredible I know Piera put like a heart and soul into this I know she's just probably almost killed herself literally putting this together it has the full support of Jay Christoff the author of the nevernight series which is a pretty like special thing when it comes to a fans passion project what I'm trying to say is I've seen very few people as dedicated to creating something as I've seen Piera be dedicated to bringing nevernight to life so I wish her and our team all the success in the world please do go check out the actual trailer in its entirety if you haven't already if you already have maybe go check it out again because why the fuck not and when it does finally come out keep an eye out for that god's grave a marketplace bit keep an eye out for the for the handsome dirty peasants it's gonna be like it's gonna be like trying to spot bigfoot I'm just gonna be a it's gonna be a blur and background I make a lot of videos on books and writing so if you like what you see cool subscribe and if you don't I get it the moustache is for my bamboo right just it's a it's a whole thing as always thanks for watching catch